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To say. what about those particular issues? what are those thoughts? >> i think the president, that is one of the things a lot of people have been wondering about. there has been his demand, particularly in the house for more of these documents pertaining to the trump/rush investigation to be released. the justice department in them and under the trump administration has been slowly walking to the release of these documents. except in heavily redacted form. the president does have the power to d...

You know as well as i do that impartiality is the essence of justice, a county court judge cant have a bunch of communications with the plaintiff and not with the defendant. that is a big no-no. how come bruce ohr at the department of justice doesnt know you cant talk to one political party continuously through the height of a campaign? >> of course, there is a difference between a judge in a prosecutor. prosecutors are allowed to talk to people, and so i dont believe that mueller and his team c...

Impartiality is the essence of justice, a county court judge cant have a bunch of communications with the plaintiff and not with the defendant. that is a big no-no. how come bruce ohr at the department of justice doesnt know you cant talk to one political party continuously through the height of a campaign? >> of course, there is a difference between a judge in a prosecutor.rece prosecutors are allowed to talk to people, and so i dont believe that mueller and his team care about whether the demo...

Protect is not used. >> absolutely. its clear what devin nunes here is saying. its not necessarily surprising that he would think this, that he would believe this. but to hear a house committee chairman, much less the intelligence committee chairman, give voice to these feelings is rather stunning. two things, first, because of what it says about his investigation, about the work that he has done on the intelligence committee. it casts doubt on everything the h -- he has done. it racises questio...

Their impartiality, hes been known to question witnesses and cut off witnesses. he certainly cuts off the defense attorneys and the prosecutors, and anderson, in fact there was one point during the pretrial phase of this ca that there was an fbi agent testifying and the judge got up and was walking around on the bench and circling his big leather chair. you can imagine how offputing that might be for a witness. hes fun to watch. he does take it seriously even though he cracks jokes in there. if ...

Interesting fellow. randi kaye joins us. the judge gets involved in his cases. >> hes an interactive judge. he was actually questioning the potential jurors, wanted to test their impartiality, hes been known to question witnesses and cut off witnesses. he certainly cuts off the defense attorneys and the prosecutors, and anderson, in fact there was one point during the pretrial phase of this that there was an fbi agent testifying and the judge got up and was walking around on the bench and circli...

>> its all very serious. >> these things are very a huge impact, look at public opinion polls among republican voters and fox news viewers, the perceptions of robert mueller have cratered. i mean, cratered. and hes done no press for obvious reasons. hes put out very few things that we know of, if any, and for good reason. i mean, he wants to maintain a businesslike impartiality to the investigation. but these things dont happen in a vacuum, and all this pr offensive that the trump administration...

Persuade one of those five justices to change their mind. and i hoped i could do it. i didnt. >> it was a very unusual late-night ruling from the united states supreme court. the decision ending any lingering hope of a recount. >> the problem with bush v gore is that it looked so partisan. it ended in a 5-4 vote with the conservatives in the majoriy. and so whats important here is to understand the bad taste in a lot of peoples mouths. the outcome of the 2000 election, i dont mean the fact that ...

Right that i thought there had to be a chance that i could persuade one of those five justices to change their minded. i hoped i could do it. i didnt. >> it was a very unusual late night ruling from the united states supreme court the decision ending any lingering hope of a et recount. >> the problem with bush v. gore is it looked so partisan. it ended in a 5-4 vote, but the conservatives in the majority. and so whats important here is to understand the bad taste in a lot of peoples mouths. the ...

Justices to change their mind. and i hoped i could do it. i didnt. >> it was a very unusual late night ruling from the united states supreme court. the decision ending any lingering hope of a recount. >> the problem with bush v gore is that it looked so partisan. it ended in a 5-4 vote with the conservatives in the majority. and so whats important here is to understand the bad taste in a lot of peoples mouths. the outcome of the 2000 election, i dont mean the fact that bush won. i mean it the wa...